heated term instead of disbanding, they held outdoor meetings in July, August and September. And these meetings have been the best attended of any during the year, averaging fifty to eighty-five. I only wish all the counties were doing as well as Campbell Kenton. They take a pride in the work they do and have a first class secretary which is very important.

Mason County has a membership of 21. and they meet each week. Members do not take the interest they should. Mason county should have a better society, as they have good men and a good secretary.

Scott County certainly deserves to be mentioned among the good ones. They have a membership of 21, which is every physician in the county. The average attendance is 14. They meet monthly and each member is interested in the work and endeavoring to make the society better. They have clinical meetings with patients present. Scott county is beginning to claim to be one of the best. They have a good secretary which makes or at least helps to make, a good society.

Pendleton County has been of the best smaller county societies in the District. They meet regularly but the same interest is not shown that they formerly had. They are doing good work and have a good secretary, who reports as many meetings as any county of

the size in the State.

Jessamine, Woodford, Fleming, Nicholas, Grant and Robertson all have organizations, but do not meet regularly, nor do as they should, all having good material. Bracken has no organization, but some, four or five keep up their dues. I have made a number of efforts to organize Bracken County and to keep them at work, but have failed.

Last, but not least, good old Harrison never misses a meeting; we lose some by death and some by removal; others come to take their place, and we go on' like Tennyson's brook.

We have the best members, the best interest, the best secretary, and the best all around good fellows of any county in the State!

The interest taken by our members is giving good results, and our citizens have become interested and enthused in our work and join us in fighting germs and contagious diseases, and look after their health before the malady takes hold. This aids us greatly in the treatment of patients, and tends toward giving better and quicker results, and prevents the spreading of contagious diseases which proves much more satisfactory and beneficial to the people of our county.

Judging from the interest taken in our society by the citizens of Harrison county. I believe the time is near at hand when the good thinking and reading people of our

State will demand of the members of our profession, that we come closer together and work shoulder to shoulder in an attempt to keep our people well, and prevent disease, rather than use our skill and science to make them well after they have become diseased and invalids. These matters can be brought about through and by about through and by our county societies and when once organized with the proper interest and feeling of the profession, we will have no trouble in getting aid and help from our citizens to bring about the desired result.

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REPORT OF COUNCILOR FROM TENTH DISTRICT. I. A. SHIRLEY, Winchester: There are seventeen counties in the Tenth District, all but four of them being mountain, and yet to show up 14 on the 100 per cent. list, and two have enrolled every eligible physician. mention so many of them as being in the mountains because on account of the condition of the roads for about one-third of the year, it makes it practically impossible for the physicians living there to get to the meetings. Elliott. Lee and Montgomery have the same number of members as last year, while Breathitt, Clark. Estill, Fayette, Madison, Menifee, Morgan, Perry and Rowan show an increase over last year, yet for some dark and bloody reason the secretary kept from us our net gain over last year which we think is thirty, forty or perhaps fifty. Two of our counties, Owsley and Powell, have three stars in their crowns showing every eligible physician within their borders on the membership list. The three counties that failed to land-Bath, Letcher and Knott-did not intend it and labored under very adverse circumstances and will no doubt be in the front rank next year. In quite a number of the counties the meetings have been rather irregular, and the attendance has not been what it should have been, but with the advent of cooler weather, and the inspiration that will naturally come from the present meeting, we hope to hear of a better attendance. The great trouble as well as the difficulty in getting efficient secretaries with tact and industry has always been the bugbear of medical meetings, and the fact that no medical society can possibly succeed without the above, should persuade members to set aside all personal preferences and go for the man known to be the most effectual. But after all, I am persuaded that we are slowly but surely getting better, and while there may not be much hope

for the rest of the State, the Tenth District is determined to do better and better as the years roll by. It has not been so many years ago since a certain county in this good old State was constantly being held up to the rest of us as a model county society in numbers attending, in postgraduate work, and especi

ally did they crow loud and long about having every physician in the county on their roster. It was nothing more than natural that such great and good things should come from the county where the celestial heads of the McCormacks rested every night, and where the foremost lady doctor (Dr. South) was to be found. Heizer, Rau, and Blackburn, the latter having been selected by the highest medical organization in the land to tell us how to teach, preach and absorb postgraduate ideas, also honored it with their residence. Do you notice, Mr. President, that this once leader and teacher failed this good year of 1915 to so much as get on the list of counties as having as many members as last year? Failed to land, is entirely off the map. and with anguish and much heaviness of heart, we ask: "Where, oh where, is Warren County?"

REPORT OF DELEGATES.

CHRISTIAN COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

W. S. SANDBACH, Caskey: The present year has been one of the most progressive years in the history of the society. We have We have lost three members by the non-payment of dues, one by moving out of the State, and we have enrolled uine new members, making our present membership 51. We only have four eligible practitioners, two at the Western State Hospital who are not members. We have held twelve meetings with two all-day meetings, with a total of twenty papers, twenty-seven case reports, and eleven clinical cases. We have had one all-day joint meeting with the druggists of the county. That in substance is the principal part of the work that has come before our society.

As secretary, I wish to say that in my fifth year I have had no trouble at all in securing programs for our meetings. The first year I had quite a task in getting papers for our program. During the present year, according to the statement made by the State Secretary, the members are paying up promptly. We have a few on the delinquent list that are behind after April 1st. One member has paid his dues twice, and the secretary has not returned them. However, at the present time we are in a more prosperous condition as a society than ever before. With the coming year I am sure we will enlist the ones we have failed to get so far.

THE SECRETARY: Distinctions cannot be made without being more or less invidious, but Christian county has done work that many other societies should be jealous of. They have so conducted their affairs that when the problem of tuberculosis was submitted to the county they showed their confidence by casting an overwhelming majority vote for the establishment of a tuberculosis sanitarium. The friendly feeling between the doctors around there is delightful.

J. PAUL KEITH: With reference to professional unity, I wrote recently to the State Board of Health saying we had a nurse and she has been there about two weeks. I read in my own town paper this morning they have guaranteed a nurse for one year in that county. Not only that, we have a movement on foot at present to have a full-time health officer in Christian County by 1916, whether anybody else has or not.

FAYETTE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

L. C. REDMON, Lexington: Our bership at present is 72, an increase of four or five over last year. We have lost three of our members by death, Dr. Wiley, Dr. Morrison and Dr. Coleman, a former president of the State Association.

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We have had a meeting every month; we have had two or more papers and clinical papers. There is a scheme on foot and in the hands of the committee to have two meetings a month, one with a scientific program, and the other two weeks later a clinical meeting. We have membership that is united. have some physicians who are not members, and the organizer for the American Medical Association came into Fayette county and secured six applications that I could not secure, but when we balloted on them no one of the six paid his dues. I had some trouble with them before. (Laughter.)

Fayette County is booming as far as memhership is concerned. We expect to increase it from time to time. Our meetings are interesting. The social features of our meetings of the last two years have been delightful. We have arranged dinners at doctor's homes, card parties and pienics. which stimulate interest. We have had five visitors from adjoining States to read essays. This also stimulates interest. We make a special effort to invite brethren from surrounding counties at attend our meetings. All things considered. Fayette county is very prosperous.

W. B. McCLURE, Lexington: Some gentleman has said that Christian County has the best secretary and so on. I want to say to you. that Fayette has a secretary-I wont say he is the best, but he has no superior. He

is not only able to arouse interest in the society, but he has been largely instrumental in bringing about a feeling of harmony and good will that has never existed before during his incumbency in that office. Dr. Redmon has no superior as a secretary. (Applause.)

THE SECRETARY: I will say frankly, all of these gentlemen are very fine secretaries, but I know some of the little difficulties connected with their work. One of the best of thein does not make any report of the Minutes to the State Journal. Another one of the best secretaries collects more dues in proportion to the profession in his county than any other secretary, and he sent in the dues on last Sunday morning before the meeting in a special delivery, addressed to the secretary, with a check for the money, and his members do not get the JOURNAL until the first half of the year. All these secretaries are fine men and deserve to be encouraged in the good work they are doing.

HENDERSON COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

J. W. STONE, Henderson: As delegate from the Henderson County Medical Society, 1 wish to make the following report: Our programs are printed for the year. Our meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Monday evenings, except July and August, in which we have no meetings. There has been a quorum present at every meeting except two. We have had an average attendance of seven members. There has been a paper read at most of the meetings, and they have been freely discussed. There are about cight or ten members who are trying to keep the society alive, and they have succeeded. The committee promised program a paper at every meeting, and we have so far kept our promise, save one or two meetings.

HOPKINS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

A. O. SISK, Earlington: The regular delegate from Hopkins county is not here. I have no written report. but we have had six meetings this year. One of these meetings has been interesting and instructive. The greatest trouble with Hopkins county is getting the doctors to attend the meetings and getting them to prepare papers and issuing a fine program. We have trouble in collecting the dues promptly. During the first of the year dues should be paid, but most of the members wait until the last minute to pay their dues. However, the secretary has endeavored to get a star for Hopkins county. We still have 100 per cent. if I am not mistaken.

LAUREL COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY. Oscar D. Brock. London: We have about eighteen active members in our county, or practitioners rather, with fifteen members of

the society. We meet quarterly. During the winter our roads are very bad and the doctors cannot get into town, and we do not have meetings very often. As soon as we get the Dixie Highway we will be able to do more work. We have one retired practitioner who does not belong to the society. The Trachoma Hospital is doing good work for the whole section of the county.

LAWRENCE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

J. J. GAMBILL. Blaine: I hardly know what to say. Dr. Hayes, our secretary, was to represent our county. At the last meeting after he found he could not come, he asked me to do so. I had a letter from him Thursday. saying he could not be here and would like

me to come.

THE SECRETARY: Eleven.

J. J. GAMBILL: There are some fellows who do not believe in progress, but we are going to try and do our best to get them in line.

THE SECRETARY: Those of us who feel like complimenting Christian County. Hopkins County and Fayette for their work. where they have splendid organizations and have been running for a period of years, cannot but feel astonished at what Dr. Gambil! reports of the backward condition in Lawrence county, one of the best in the State, but it is interesting to note as the report shows, that marked progress is being made by those who are familiar with medical organization affairs of the State. For fourteen years practically no membership has been reported. in the Lawrence County Medical Society up This to this year. year they have eleven members. They have the nucleus of a good working society. They have splendid men and a splendid county. They have permitted a lot of men who are not modern physicians in many ways to dominate matters in the county to an extent of bringing about a state of disorganization that is almost pitiful. These young men are doing their best to get together and bring order out of chaos, and they deserve our hearty support and approbation.

J. J. GAMBILL: We have many cases of

diphtheria and scarlet fever and other contagious diseases in our section of the county, and we have notified the Board of Health of these cases. Last week I had eight cases of diphtheria. I succeeded I succeeded in closing three in closing three schools, on account of this disease, although I had some difficulty in doing it.

LYON COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

C. H. LINN, Kuttawa: The Lyon Medical Society has two stars in its crown. We have only nine physicians in the county. Our membership is of a higher order. We are above the average in membership. I think there is hardly a physician in the county who is eligible as a member who is not interested in the progress of the medical profession and is anxious to learn and to commune with his neighbors, and the only reason we do not have meetings oftener is because our society is so small. It is not much trouble to get a program, the same men come around in rotation very often, but sometimes I think we are not enthusiastic about our meetings. We have not had over five meetings this year. We have telephones and we have the man who is down for a paper inform us that he is going to be out of town out of courtesy to the other members, and we may or may not have a meeting. Aside from that, I think we are above the average county medical society.

The only possible thing that I can report that is unfavorable in our society is that some of our members get a little mixed up in their cases occasionally, and they think that this or that doctor is getting some of their business and that they are not being treated with professional courtesy. We are like the Mexicans. if you interfere we might rebel and turn against the society. We want to stand in pleasant relations to the parent society and settle our own affairs at home.

THE SECRETARY: I would like to ask unanimous consent that both delegates from McCracken County make reports. I make that as a motion.

ing a larger number than was reported last year. There are ten or a dozen aoctors yet who ought to be members of the society. One or two of them are ineligible. It is hard to get those who are eligible into the society. I found that out when I was secretary several years ago. There are a few who still remain outside of the benefits of this society. We are holding meetings bi-monthly during all the year except the extremely hot months in the middle of the summer. Our meetings this year have been especially well attenued, and we have been fortunate enough to have good papers and spirited discussions. We have reported a few papers and discussions in the JOURNAL.

A short time ago we had a joint meeting with the Marshall County Medical Society, we had two papers from McCracken county, and two from Marshall county and a barnecue dinner. The doctors of McCracken county have been forwarded for a number of years along certain lines. It was one of the first counties to have a tuberculosis sanitarium. The matter is to be submitted to the voters as to whether the county shall take this sanitarium over or not. The doctors of Paducah were instrumental a few years ago in having an issue of bonds voted to erect a first class hospital and training school which has been in existence a number of years. It is doing an immense amount of work in the training of nurses. The members of our society give lectures to the high school pupils on health problems. There is yet room for improvement along the lines of harmony and scientific improvement, but I presume we have the average county medical society.

I quite agree with what has been said that the office of county secretary is a hard position to fill. I had to advance the dues of six or eight or ten members in order to get them in, but I was reimbursed. You have got to telephone and write them personal letters; they put off the payment of dues until the last moment, so it takes a great deal of hard work on the part of the secretary.

H. G. REYNOLDS, Paducah: Dr. Reddick has really covered the essentials in regard to our county medical society, so that he has left little or nothing for me to say. I wish to make this remark, however, that if the members failed to pay their dues Dr. Reddick is able to pay them. I do not know whether the other secretaries can do that or not. (Laughter.)

SIMPSON COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

W. A. GUTHRIE, Franklin: We have about fifteen physicians in Simpson county, and about nine or ten are located in cne particular section. We have twelve members

who have paid dues. This is better than last year, and we are entitled to a star. We have some very good meetings. We do not meet as often as we should. Everything looks brighter for us, and we will try to do better next year. We have a good secretary who does his duty to the best of his ability. We have several old men who take no special interest in the work, and there is always some discord and trouble. We feel encouraged this year and we will try to do better next.

SCOTT COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

J. E. PACK, Georgetown: Scott County being a small one, we have eighteen regular practitioners of the regular school. We have two other physicians in the county who are physio-medicalists. We have solicited these gentlemen to join, but they never come to our meetings and of course are not members. Of the eighteen regular physicians, there are fifteen members. I believe there are just thirteen who have paid dues this year. Two memhers have not paid their dues up to date. A few of the eighteen live eighteen miles from the county seat where we hold our meetings. It is almost impossible for them to come except when the roads are good; but for a small county ani considering the number of physicians, we usually have good meetings. If a few get together we hold a meeting. If the essayist is not present we have every man report a case and discuss the cases. The secretary has a hard time in trying to work up interest and to get the members to attend the meetings. It is a hard job to hold any county society together and to keep the doctors in good humor and get them to pay their dues and attend the meetings regularly. Sometimes we are short one or two meetings because the secretary is not able to be there. I have thought a great deal about the propriety of having an assistant cr secretary pro tem, so that if the regular secretary is not able to attend the meeting the secretary pro tem can stimulate the other members to do so. It seems we are dependent upon whether the secretary goes or not in order to have a meeting. A good feeling exists among the doctors, and we are all on good terms. Until last year such a feeling did not exist. I have been instrumental in bringing about a reconciliation between some of the members. In justice to our secretary, I will say we have three members who go to Dr. Sandbach's county society, and notwithstanding we have our regular meetings, they love to go to the Christian County Medical Society meetings because they have a good society there, they have good meetings and we have more members from our county because they have doctors enough to have a good meeting.

WHITI EY COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

C. A. MOSS, Williamsburg: I am not a regular delegate, I am alternate, and I have. no written report. I have been secretary for three years, and during that time we have held one or two meetings during autumn. There is no secret in collecting dues. Our society is sure of having its meetings and of having papers read. I have tried a little of everything to have good meetings, but on account of the nature of our country and the train service it has been difficult to do so. I said about getting up good programs. feel encouraged after what Dr. Sandbach has

HARRISON COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

L. S. GIVENS, Cynthiana: The Harrison County Medical Society held eleven regular and three special meetings during the past year. The July meeting was omitted on account of Chautauqua. The average attendance has been fifteen. We have now 24 mem. bers. We have lost two by death during the past year. The number of cases reported 33; number of papers read 14. Our July meeting is the only one omitted since our reorganization in May, fourteen years ago. I am almost safe in saying that every eligible physician in Harrison county is now a member of our society. We are happy and contented.

LAVIESS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

J. J. RODMAN, Owensboro: The number of members in good standing at the time of the last annual report was 69. Since that time two have removed from the county and one other has left. Three new members have been admitted, making 69 at this writing, the same as the last report.

The meeting has not been attended quite so well as last year, the average attendance being thirty-five. It has been harder than ever before to collect dues, the cause of which is not certain. Perhaps it is the European war, as that is the bete noir that causes all our aches.

Some of our members are very enthusiastic as shown by the good papers published in the JOURNAL. The JOURNAL is well worth the

two dollars. One of our members would not be without the insurance section now for all it costs the society. It may be your time next year. He pays promptly and so has the protection for the full year.

CAMPBELL-KENTON COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

G. J. HERMANN, Newport: The CampbellKenton County Medical Society desires to report that the past year has been a very suecessful one.